mattkab
Senior Member
This was one of those projects we wished we'd done years ago when we first got our boat.
Spent Saturday washing, scrubbing, and stripping any wax and oil residue, and today painting the decks (both the flybridge and main level). Old paint was was beige, and really worn:
We decided to switch the color up, and went with "Battleship Gray". In preparation work, I remembered reading an old post here about paint, and following a suggestion on that thread we went with Rustoleum Topsides. It seemed to work just fine, and at $13/qt I think it was great!. We didn't add any anti-slip additives, as we felt the texture on the existing decks was still aggressive enough.
It worked out great as a two-person job. I taped and removed the tape while my wife painted. With the detail work such as radius curves and other deck attachments, I was never able to get too far ahead of her.
7 hours of painting, 5 quarts of paint, three rollers, two roller trays, and three bags of garbage later, and we think the boat looks great. It's a bold color, but I think with the wood trim, the white paint, the blue canvas the grey fits the color scheme well.
Spent Saturday washing, scrubbing, and stripping any wax and oil residue, and today painting the decks (both the flybridge and main level). Old paint was was beige, and really worn:
We decided to switch the color up, and went with "Battleship Gray". In preparation work, I remembered reading an old post here about paint, and following a suggestion on that thread we went with Rustoleum Topsides. It seemed to work just fine, and at $13/qt I think it was great!. We didn't add any anti-slip additives, as we felt the texture on the existing decks was still aggressive enough.
It worked out great as a two-person job. I taped and removed the tape while my wife painted. With the detail work such as radius curves and other deck attachments, I was never able to get too far ahead of her.
7 hours of painting, 5 quarts of paint, three rollers, two roller trays, and three bags of garbage later, and we think the boat looks great. It's a bold color, but I think with the wood trim, the white paint, the blue canvas the grey fits the color scheme well.